Word: snickeringly
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Last Sunday the people of Manhattan were privileged to welcome a new newspaper-the New York Sunday Leader, price 5c. Those who wondered what the publishers (who also issue a theatrical snicker sheet called Zit's Weekly) intended to do with the paper, and whether they had not been slightly temerarious in their choice of a title, were informed by an editorial that "the Leader's aim is to print all news fearlessly, fairly and without malice." Underneath was a squib censoring Edward W. Browning, "Cinderella man," for "taking little girls in their teens to night clubs." Another...
...edgell blade went snicker-snack...
...Belleair Heights. They read with respect the names of Mrs. Dorothy Cambell Hurd of Philadelphia, national champion; Miss Glenna Collett of Providence, Miss Francis Hadfield of Milwaukee, Miss Dorothy Klotz of Chicago, Mrs G. H. Stetson of Philadelphia. Suddenly, one of their number pointed to a name, emitted a snicker. Others, following his shaking finger, perceived the joke, began to titter, to cackle. Soon a hysteria of amusement possessed the group; they laid hands upon one another, crowing; they pressed their sides, their eyes watered freely, they stamped upon the ground; some, more abandoned, slipped limply down and rolled, helpless...
...vorpal blade went snicker-snack! The beast was dead, and with his head...
...face of a healthy vanity which is spreading slowly through contemporary writing, he poses in gold tights and a cap and bells. I admire his courage and his independence; but I'd rather laugh my belly-laughter with Rabelais than titter and snicker over Carl Van Vechten...